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August 12th, 2010
04:49 PM ET
Interview with 'ground zero mosque' spokesmanCNN Radio Correspondent Steve Kastenbaum filed this report from New York: The leaders of the proposed Islamic community center and mosque near New York's ground zero are addressing their critics by vowing to be open and transparent as the project progresses. But there have been few opportunities to question the organization’s leadership directly about the project. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Cordoba Initiative’s founder, has been out of the country most of the summer on one of his many international missions aimed at building bridges between Muslims and the West. (The U.S. State Department is sending him on a similar trip soon.) But the spokesperson for Park 51, the name of the proposed project, agreed to speak with CNN Radio about the verbal attacks launched at his group and the emotionally charged debate swirling around the project.
August 12th, 2010
04:18 PM ET
United States of Islamophobia?
By Arsalan Iftikhar, Special to CNN Almost everybody has heard about the protests against the mosque and Islamic center planned to be built about two blocks from ground zero in Manhattan. But most people are still unaware that these anti-Muslim political campaigns are spreading throughout our beloved country as a new wave of Islamophobia hits.
August 12th, 2010
03:50 PM ET
The force behind ads opposing New York Islamic centerMore on this story here. 
August 12th, 2010
07:00 AM ET
What is Ramadan? (Thirsty is the Hardest Part)
By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN In the religious literacy quiz I have given my Boston University students on the first day of the semester over the last few years, I always ask, “What is Ramadan? And in what religion is it celebrated?” Of the students who took this quiz, 61 percent knew this holiday, which began yesterday for Sunnis and today for Shias, was Islamic, but only 38 percent knew it was a fast. |
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Editor's note: Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, founder of 
Editor's Note: Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of "God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World," is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor.